Welcome to iAbacus for Scotland
Welcome to iAbacus for Scotland
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For schools, colleges, and early years settings across Scotland, iAbacus provides a clear, collaborative framework that is fully aligned with the national vision for education. Whether you are a primary or secondary school undertaking self-evaluation against How Good Is Our School? (HGIOS?4) or a college aligning with Education Scotland's quality framework, our platform helps you to evaluate your practice, drive meaningful improvement, and support every learner's journey.
For schools, colleges, and early years settings across Scotland, iAbacus provides a clear, collaborative framework that is fully aligned with the national vision for education. Whether you are a primary or secondary school undertaking self-evaluation against How Good Is Our School? (HGIOS?4) or a college aligning with Education Scotland's quality framework, our platform helps you to evaluate your practice, drive meaningful improvement, and support every learner's journey.
Align your self-evaluation directly with the HGIOS?4 quality framework.
Create a single, collaborative hub for your School Improvement Plan (SIP).
Drive targeted improvement using Scotland's dedicated Equity Toolkit template.
Support meaningful Professional Review and Development (PRD) for all staff.
Align professional learning goals with the GTCS Professional Standards.
Build a coherent, whole-school STEM strategy aligned to national priorities.
Demonstrate your impact with evidence-rich reports for Education Scotland.
Empower your entire school team with a shared collaborative planning tool.
Support learners within the Curriculum for Excellence with coordinated plans.
How it's used in Scottish schools
How it's used in Scottish schools
iAbacus brings clarity and consistency to all your improvement work, from strategic self-evaluation against HGIOS?4 to developing a whole-school approach to STEM.
iAbacus brings clarity and consistency to all your improvement work, from strategic self-evaluation against HGIOS?4 to developing a whole-school approach to STEM.
Create a collaborative, live self-evaluation using our template aligned with the How Good Is Our School? (HGIOS?4) framework. Bring your leadership team together to build a shared, evidence-rich picture of your school's strengths and priorities, and turn your self-evaluation into a meaningful, actionable School Improvement Plan (SIP).
Support every member of your team with a simple, structured tool for Professional Review and Development (PRD). Staff can evaluate their practice against the GTCS Professional Standards, evidence their impact, and create targeted goals for their professional learning, fostering a culture of meaningful reflection.
Empower your leadership team to drive a whole-school priority, such as implementing Scotland's Equity Toolkit or strengthening your approach to STEM. Use our dedicated templates to ensure a consistent, evidence-based approach to strategic improvement across your school.
Create a holistic view of a pupil's journey. Use individual abacuses to track academic progress, monitor wellbeing, or coordinate support for pupils with additional needs, ensuring every child is supported to achieve their full potential within the Curriculum for Excellence.
A flexible tool for every purpose and role
A flexible tool for every purpose and role
Every purpose
Every purpose
From whole-school self-evaluation using HGIOS?4 and developing an equity strategy, to managing staff PRD and supporting professional learning, iAbacus supports every aspect of your school's improvement journey.
Every role
Every role
In a Scottish school, collaboration is key. iAbacus empowers your entire team—from the Headteacher and Principal Teachers to classroom teachers and support staff—to collaborate on shared goals and contribute to a unified vision.
Headteachers
Headteachers
Lead collaborative self-evaluation and improvement plans, support your middle leaders, and report to your Parent Council and local authority with confidence and evidence.
Middle Leaders
Middle Leaders
Drive improvement for your subject or stage with a clear, evidence-based process that develops your leadership and strategic thinking.
Teachers / TAs
Teachers / TAs
Own your professional growth with a simple, structured tool for reflection, PRD, and evidencing your impact on learner outcomes over time.
HGIOS?4: Leading improvement with confidence
HGIOS?4: Leading improvement with confidence
Our whole-school template, aligned with the HGIOS?4 quality framework, gives school leaders a single, collaborative hub for their improvement plan, turning evaluation into confident, strategic action.
Our whole-school template, aligned with the HGIOS?4 quality framework, gives school leaders a single, collaborative hub for their improvement plan, turning evaluation into confident, strategic action.
Smart features that save time
Smart features that save time
Everything you need to embed a sustainable culture of self-evaluation and improvement.
Everything you need to embed a sustainable culture of self-evaluation and improvement.
Templates for Scottish schools
Templates for Scottish schools
Start straight away with templates for schools in Scotland — or let us design one tailored to your needs.
Collaborative planning
Collaborative planning
Co-create plans with colleagues and build a shared culture of ownership across your school.
Instant one-click reports
Instant one-click reports
Export PDFs in a single click — ready to share with your Board of Management or the Inspectorate.
Track progress visually
Track progress visually
See progress over time with a visual record that shows not just where you are — but how far you’ve come.
Templates for schools in Scotland
Templates for schools in Scotland
iAbacus includes a library of ready-made templates tailored specifically to the Scottish context, ensuring you can align your self-evaluation with national priorities from day one.
iAbacus includes a library of ready-made templates tailored specifically to the Scottish context, ensuring you can align your self-evaluation with national priorities from day one.
This template provides a clear, comprehensive framework for school leaders to ensure self-evaluation is rigorous and fully aligned with the How good is our school? 4th Edition inspection framework. It creates a single, coherent School Improvement Plan (SIP), consolidating all judgements, evidence, and actions in one accessible place.
This template provides a robust, evidence-informed structure to guide your school's self-evaluation and improvement planning in relation to equity. It helps you to close the poverty-related attainment gap and is specifically designed to support schools in improving outcomes for children and young people impacted by poverty, aligning directly with the core mission of the Scottish Attainment Challenge.
Designed for senior leaders in the Scottish college sector, this template directly mirrors the Quality Indicators in Education Scotland’s ‘How good is our college?’. It ensures your self-evaluation is comprehensive, relevant, and inspection-ready, helping you to drive meaningful improvement and report on progress against your college’s outcome agreements.
This template allows ELC settings to evaluate their provision against Education Scotland’s HGIOELC framework. It provides a clear structure for robust, evidence-based self-evaluation, ensuring your team is ready for scrutiny and inspection, and that your action plans lead to improved outcomes for children.
This comprehensive framework for ELCs, primary, and secondary schools helps you to evaluate and improve your whole-setting approach to STEM. It is aligned with HGIOS?4 and the national STEM strategy, stimulating dialogue and collaborative action towards developing a cohesive, whole-school approach to STEM education.
Teacher Self-Review and Professional Growth
Teacher Self-Review and Professional Growth
This template empowers all teachers to own their professional growth. It provides a clear framework for self-evaluation against the GTCS Professional Standards, helping teachers to prepare for their Professional Review and Development (PRD) by organising reflections and evidence, and creating a meaningful plan for their professional learning.
A Teacher-Centric Approach to Professional Development
A Teacher-Centric Approach to Professional Development
Support staff growth with a unique, teacher-centric approach. iAbacus transforms the Professional Review and Development (PRD) process into a meaningful dialogue, empowering teachers to own their professional learning journey against the GTCS Professional Standards.
Support staff growth with a unique, teacher-centric approach. iAbacus transforms the Professional Review and Development (PRD) process into a meaningful dialogue, empowering teachers to own their professional learning journey against the GTCS Professional Standards.
Not just evaluation
Not just evaluation
Too many tools stop at judgement. iAbacus moves you forward.
Too many tools stop at judgement. iAbacus moves you forward.
Unlike audit and compliance systems that simply show where you are, iAbacus connects evaluation to action. It leads you through analysis, planning and collaboration — ensuring insight becomes strategy and drives real improvement.
Supporting every learner's journey
Supporting every learner's journey
Create a holistic, 360-degree view of a pupil's progress within the Curriculum for Excellence. Use our learner-focused templates to coordinate support, track wellbeing, and ensure every child has a clear and personalised path to success.
Create a holistic, 360-degree view of a pupil's progress within the Curriculum for Excellence. Use our learner-focused templates to coordinate support, track wellbeing, and ensure every child has a clear and personalised path to success.
Instant Insights
Instant Insights
From multiple perspectives to one clear picture
From multiple perspectives to one clear picture
The true power of iAbacus emerges when evaluations and action plans are shared. Our unique "Overlay" features let you combine input from different teams, subjects or schools — instantly. This creates a panoramic view that reveals patterns, highlights good practice and supports more informed, strategic decisions.
What youre colleagues are saying...
What youre colleagues are saying...
"The most straightforward and simple improvement tool I have come across in the last 10 years."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"Because it’s not complicated everybody gets it! Not having to explain it makes it easy to share."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"At strategic board level we use it to look at strengths and weaknesses across all the schools."
-- GROUP CEO --
"It was a revelation! Lo and behold, I only had to look at it to know what it is all about."
-- IT JOURNALIST --
"It's intuitive and reflects very simply the journey we want teachers to plan for themselves."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"The most powerful tool for providing concrete evidence towards appraisals."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"I like how it helps you reflect as a practitioner. The visual idea of an abacus makes it easy to use."
-- TEACHER --
"It’s simple and easy to use even for a computer-phobe like me. Thank you for all your help."
-- TEACHER --
"The idea is good, the display is good – the final report function is very good."
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Try iAbacus for FREE
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Unlock the full platform with your team and experience the clarity and confidence iAbacus brings.
Book a demo and get a free 30 day trial
Book a demo and get a free 30 day trial
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Align with Scottish priorities using templates for HGIOS?4 and the Equity Toolkit.
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A single source of truth for your school's entire improvement journey.
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Empower every role with intuitive tools that foster shared ownership.
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Drive continuous improvement with a living, evidence-based process.
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